rearing

Definitions

The process of bringing up and caring for a child or animal until they are fully grown.

The act of rising up on the hind legs, typically referring to a horse.

The act of constructing or setting something upright.

Examples

The mother bird was busy rearing her chicks in the nest.

He spent his childhood rearing horses on his family's farm in Kentucky.

Synonyms

raising nurturing upbringing fostering breeding cultivating nursing

Antonyms

neglecting abandoning ignoring discarding stunting suppressing withholding